Just had the most fascinating conversation with a GM

[FengZhou]

According people on Balmung, there are still bots running gathering stuff that have been doing so for YEARS... so the whole ban WAVE is clearly missing clearly reported bots out in the open.

I wish that GMs had more power to perm ban bots on the spot.

[KageTokage]

According people on Balmung, there are still bots running gathering stuff that have been doing so for YEARS... so the whole ban WAVE is clearly missing clearly reported bots out in the open.

I wish that GMs had more power to perm ban bots on the spot.

The number of non-RMT bots that actually get caught in each ban wave is pathetically small. Last week there was 34 bans for botting vs. 6K+ bans for illicit activity (Which is the category the gil-farming bots get shoved into, as their hacking is likely viewed as a more serious offense then the botting).

That figure is being gathered from across every single server, so on average they banned less then one bot per server...which is not going to cut it when there's over 30 people I can recall on Cactuar alone who do it regularly...